Interacting factors in the control of the crustacean molt cycle

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985 · Am. Zool.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6389977

Skinner, D M

In order to account for the known phenomena of the crustacean molt cycle, at least six factors must be postulated: a molting hormone (20-OH-ecdysone), a molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH), an anecdysial limb autotomy factor, a proecdysial limb-autotomy factor, a limb growth-inhibiting factor and an exuviation factor. Only the molting hormone and its derivatives have been chemically well defined. The various factors interact in complex ways to maintain not only a coordinated proecdysial period in preparation for exuviation but also a proecdysial period with the flexibility to respond to such interim hazards as the loss of partially regenerated limbs. 79 references, 2 figures, 1 table.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6389977
• Journal Information: Am. Zool.; (United States), Vol. 25; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 27-30 Dec 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
CRUSTACEANS
MOLTING
LIMBS
BIOLOGICAL REGENERATION
ANIMAL GROWTH
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HORMONES
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
ARTHROPODS
BIOLOGICAL RECOVERY
BODY
BODY AREAS
DATA
GROWTH
INFORMATION
INVERTEBRATES
NUMERICAL DATA
RECOVERY
550300* - Cytology